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Supplementary
All failed elements of the assessments must be retaken if the students average mark falls below the required pass mark of 40 % (to a maximum of 2500 words). New assignment titles will be issued.

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Learning Outcomes

On completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. analyse and appropriately interpret writing assignments in their own academic discipline;
2. display a critical awareness of the features of academic discourse;
3. identify how critical features of discourse can be used to inform own writing development;
4. organise a logical and coherent argument within a recommended format for an appropriate academic assignment.

Brief description

This module covers initial aspects of planning and drafting academic essays. Week by week students engage in classroom activities and discussion through which they identify key issues for writing in their own subject fields. Over the ten weeks, students adapt aspects of their own writing styles into the formal requirements of writing subject-specific essays.

Aims

This module aims to develop a critical understanding of the processes involved in writing an academic essay. It works towards identification of appropriate argumentation, interpretation of essay questions, structural planning and appropriate use of published source material. It encourages students to identify and work within styles recommended by their academic departments, towards the development of effective critical writing.

Content

Seminar 1 Introduction to course and assignments.

The specialist nature of academic communication: introduction to discourse community.